ATPE Online Continuing Professional Education


Getting Thoughts on Paper

This CPE unit guides you through the Getting Thoughts on Paper area of the of the All Kinds of Minds® website LearningBase. All Kinds of Minds' mission is to help students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life (through delivery of its professional development program for K-12 educators, Schools Attuned®). Learn more at http://www.allkindsofminds.org/.

This CPE unit is worth 3.5 hours credit for certification renewal requirements of the Texas State Board for Educator Certification. As an educator taking this CPE unit, you are held to the honor system and will certify once the unit is completed that you have read the entire text contained in the links to the questionnaire. There are a total of 99 questions.

Click on the links for each section and read the entire text to locate the missing words in the statements. It may be helpful to print out each page as you go through the course. If you click the back button on your browser, it will not refresh the answers you typed in the blanks.

Introduction

  1. Students are asked to produce an increasingly large amount of .
      
  2. Students must simultaneously recall ideas, vocabulary, rules of spelling, punctuation and grammar and must make use of strategies while their thoughts on paper.
      
  3. Some students who possess creative, thoughtful and knowledgeable ideas are to convey this information in writing.
      
  4. Students might struggle with writing because of a profile of strengths and areas in need of improvement that may impede their learning and execution of written work.

Handwriting

  1. When a student writes and forms letters, he makes use of his abilities.
      
  2. The student's first steps in forming letters involve identifying the letter to be written, using to recall what that letter should look like, and making and holding a mental picture of the letter.
      
  3. As students progress through school, they are expected to remember more and more information and to remember it extremely quickly or .
      
  4. If a student has a hard time retrieving any of this information from long- or short-term memory, the entire writing will be more difficult.

Copying From the Board or Overhead

  1. In order to copy words or numbers, students first create a mental image of each letter, number or symbol they need to write, and then use that image as a when actually writing the letter/number.
      
  2. When students copy information, they use skills to read the words to be copied and short-term memory to hold that information in their minds until they write it down on paper.
      
  3. Help the student learn to situations when s/he has an easy time writing or copying information with those where s/he has difficulties.
      
  4. Allow the student to copy information from the board or overhead in (dealing with small amounts at a time).